Causes of the Civil War and U.S. Reform Movements 1848-1860.

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Link to Mission U.S. Flight to Freedom Simulation:

Mission U.S. Flight to Freedom

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Background

William Wilberforce- Amazing Grace Movie Excerpt on the Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire in 1833

Politics: Compromises and Conflicts from Missouri to the Election of 1860

Abraham Lincoln Crossroads - Simulation of Lincoln's Decisions from 1854-1864
PBS- Judgement Day Resources- Africans in America Series- Great Index to Primary Sources from 1831-1865
House Divided-America in the Age of Lincoln

Animated Map of the Changing Balance of Free and Slave States/ Territories 1783-1861
Building a More Perfect Union (U.S. Capitol Visitor's Center Online Exhibit)- INTERACTIVE TIMELINE

EVENTS

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850- The primary source document in its entirety.
1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin... Uncle Tom's Cabin E-Text( Multi-Media online exhibit with link to the full online text of Uncle Tom's Cabin)
Uncle Tom- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Death of Uncle Tom Scene from the Theatre Adaption of Uncle Tom's Cabin

1854 Kansas Nebraska Act
1857 Dred Scott Decision
1858 Lincoln Douglas Debates
1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Key Quotes from the Debate- Highlights
Lincoln Home National Park Service- Full Texts of Each Debate


1859 Oberlin-Wellington Slave Rescue
Oberlin-Wellington Slave Rescue and Trial
Newspaper Accounts of the Slave Rescue Trial
Oberlin College Online Exhibit
1859 John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown's Holy War- PBS
Election of 1860
House Divided Exhibit- Dickinson University
1860 Republican Party Platform
1860 Democratic Party Platform (Northern)
1860 Democractic Party Platform (Southern)
1860 Constitutional Union Party Platform

Abolitionist Movement and Women's Rights Movement

Abolition and Suffrage- Library of Congress Exhibit
American Anti Slavery Society
Not for Ourselves Alone- Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton- PBS
Women in Congress Online Exhibit
HeForShe (New UN Organization being promoted by goodwill ambassador Emma Watson)


PBS American Experience: The Abolitionists
Documenting the American South
I Will Be Heard - Cornell Exhibit on Abolitionism in America
What to the Slave is the 4th of July- Frederick Douglass 1852


Underground Railroad
Mission U.S. Flight to Freedom Simulation
National Geographic - The Underground Railroad Simulation - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center- Cincinnati Museum site
Maryland and the Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad - US History Review by Keith Hughes
True Facts About the Underground Railroad - Discovery Education
Labor Movement
Education, Prisons, Temperence Movements